Quantifying Student Effort and Class Involvement in the Introductory Higher Education Science Classroom

TL;DR

This paper introduces Cash Participation, a simple method to measure student involvement in science classes, which boosts engagement, reduces apathy, and minimizes anonymity among students.

Contribution

The paper presents a minimal effort program that effectively quantifies and enhances student participation in higher education science classrooms.

Findings

Increased class energy and engagement.

Reduced student apathy.

Minimized student anonymity.

Abstract

This note details a minimal effort program, Cash Participation, that quantifies class participation while increasing class energy, decreasing student apathy and removing student embraced anonymity.